Definitely feels like it’s snowballing. From barely moving for like a decade after 2012 to really pumping after the Steam Deck came out. Hoping hardware shortages can be resolved well enough for the Steam Machine to hit. It’s the perfect form factor to me for my living room to finally make couch multiplayer comfortable for me and guests
I got my not-quite-as-techy friend to switch, and they’re like a week in and already so pissed off about how bad windows was.
i gave all my friends pcs , perk of the job they all run mint . my friends parents pc was win10 and borked , asked them what they need pc for , web browser . mint . i dont even ask hahha . no complaints , my one friend thought it was windows.
Looks sus. Probably a fluke.
There has been a disproportionate amount of “fuck windows” chatter on social media recently. It could be real.
I wish that was it, but what are those unnamed 64 bit Linuxes supposed to be?
And those channels have been talking about Linux for months. Why now such a sharp increase?
The Chinese New Year screwed up the stats for last month which makes this month look like a bigger jump than it really is
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/
I made a rough trendline from Win10 EoL
You can also look at the bottom of the website where it focuses specifically on English users. It’s 8.27% to 11.28%, still a big jump but nowhere near doubling.
No more Chinese New Year, back to year of Linux!
Going to add one more PC in day or 2. The courier company is holding my PSU. GIVE ME MY PSU!!!
You bought a PC? In this economy?
I guess now is as good as time as ever, because they are only going to become more rare and expensive going forward. If you have the money for it of course.
Maybe, maybe not. I wonder if after the AI bubble pops (whenever that happens - crosses fingers) data centers will close and suddenly have to liquidate a bunch of assets. Kinda like what happened after the NFT crash.
The AI bubble bursting will probably cause a shitload of tech companies to go bankrupt and cause divestment in data centres, but it’ll be enterprise hardware mainly I think. Prices likely will fall as a second order effect. And the economy will probably also collapse as bad or worse than 2008. Lots to look forward to.
For dummies like me, is the +3.1% of the total or just the subtotal of Linux machines?
To put it less crazy, is that a more than doubling of Linux since last time or lower, but still respectable 3% growth of Linux machines?
One is amazing and a beautiful omen, other is cool.
Last month was 2.23%, but the only reason why it was so low was because of the Chinese New Year
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracker/#linuxonlyanchor
Yes it’s more than double.
I do most of my gaming on Linux now.
It’s better than macOS has ever been, and I’m playing less PlayStation than I used to.
There’s a lot of smaller games I’m enjoying, like Esoteric Ebb or Slay the Spire 2
When this reaches 10%, that’s a critical mass and things will start ramping up a lot. We’ll see more native ports and compatibility will increase. Software companies care about 10% a lot more than twice as much as 5%
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